Screenwriting : Tom Garvey by Tom Garvey

Is there a specific publisher or production company that seek true police stories with organized crime involvement set in the sixties and seventies in Philadelphia? I am at the final edit stage and the merging of some of the thirty five stories into just one. I have attached a synopsis that gives some background on the two character driven script. Any input pro or con would be greatly appreciated. THE FOLLOWING IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY COVERING THE LIVES OF TWO PHILADELPHIA NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDS SIMULTANEOUSLY ONE WILL RISE TO A PREEMINENT POSITION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT THE OTHER TO THE PINNACLE OF ORGANIZED CRIME. THE SPLITTING IMAGE BY TOM GARVEY “Slippery when wet” the sign flashed as Police recruit Tom Kelly maneuvered his 63 Camaro over the timeworn bridge into the City of Brotherly love. A light snow caused a traffic delay making Kelly late for the official swearing in Ceremony as a Philadelphia Police Officer. Twenty years later he would leave the Philadelphia Police department honorably without a debriefing, retirement ceremony, badge or 20 year wristwatch. In other words Police Officer Tom Kelly formally never existed, yet Officer Tom Kelly would close out his career costing the City of Philadelphia more than one “billion dollars.” Orchestrating Police Labor Arbitration's he would push the city to fiscal Bankruptcy; manipulating Arbitration's across Pennsylvania,Municipalities would be mandated to provide enormous benefits to their police never suspecting the Arbitration award had been secretly consummated in advance. As Pennsylvania State President of the 28,000 member Police Union Kelly would provide data to U.S. Attorney Edwin Meese resulting in President Ronald Regan Abolishing the U.S. Civil Rights commission. This White House meeting contributed immensely to the Law and Order theme utilized by the Republican Party In their Election victories. Spawned from the same neighborhood, Lou Bauer unceremoniously chose the career track of Organized Crime. Nicknamed “JR” he was committed to robbery, extortion, burglary, counterfeiting, kidnapping or any other short cut to the accumulation of wealth. Crimes that remain unsolved even today. Millions of dollars in jewelry would be passed through the known fences of organized crime, and in a Pittsburgh jewelry heist the Police themselves were believed to be the culprits. Bauer would participate in a conspiracy to Kidnap Pittsburgh Steelers football owner Art Rooney. As a respected and trusted friend of New Jersey crime boss Nicky Scarfo and New York crime boss John GottiL He would call on a host of mob services to supplement his criminal activities. His cohorts were responsible for over 25 murders and accomplished the only escape from the Marion Illinois Federal correctional institution by using an electrical door opener made in the prison shop by a member of JR’S crew. The planning and successful break out still remain a mystery to prison management. Side by side these two middle class neighborhood friends formed the nucleus of the splitting image. One, a Police Officer and respected President of the Police Union; the other a member of Organized crime considered one of the most highly skilled burglars and safe crackers in the United States. Their paths would cross periodically in not so friendly ways and both would end up at the apex of their chosen professions. REALITY-NULLIFIES-UTOPIA When a police officer leaves the police academy full of elation and high spirits his goal is to make a difference by curing some of the ills of society. Years later after confronting the reality of police work the proposition becomes everybody is an asshole. Sociologists, Criminologists, even Politicians voice their opinions on the personality of a Police Officer. Only an urban constable on patrol “COP” can elucidate the pitfalls and frustrations of law enforcement. In a neighborhood where a blurred line exists between wrongdoing and righteousness two opposites begin to attract. Tom Kelly’s choice of the police profession takes him to the highs of success and fame. Then just as quickly to the lows of derision, investigation, and humiliation. Lou Bauer borne of a cultured, religiously anchored family selects criminality, finding prestige and prosperity, until apprehension delivers incarceration, intimidation, and constant life and death struggles. In south Philadelphia “The Family” had two distinct meanings, the organized crime family controlled life outside the home, while traditional Italian family values nurtured a four walled moral code within. The bane of urban existence during the sixties and seventies was the constant confrontations between Police and almost every segment of society. From the blacks in the civil rights struggle to the unions fighting the loss of manufacturing jobs. Every neighborhood sired inhabitants looking for new ways to combat crime or engage in crime while “the thin blue line” as the police were called by politicians and the media were the only barrier standing between Anarchy and Democracy. Self survival, us versus them was the mentality of the street cop, my wife, my Parents, even my friends can never be as close as my partner. Adjacent this background a new kind of career criminal was bread, cunning as a Wall Street broker suave as the most cultured politician, yet as deadly as “jack the ripper”. Lou Bauer has been incarcerated for a large part of his life. Honing his trade behind the bars of some of the most infamous correctional institutions in America where rehabilitation induces further criminality Lou Bauer was a tenured academic. Even today many criminals incarcerated for life who swore an oath of Omerta would respectfully open their cells to reminisce past felonious activity with professor Bauer. Lou Bauer was a master burglar who viewed sophisticated alarm systems as a career challenge rather than a deterrent. His electronic mastery and cunning courage would make him a law enforcement enigma and a master of his trade. Under his neighborhood nickname (JR) he would command the respect of crime family members across the country. His still unsolved capers would become legend among professional highwaymen who peruse newspaper crime stories like actors scrutinizing variety.